What a fantastic experience!!

[TristenEugene]

Fs passengers You have yourself a real winner here!! Because of you FS9 is now something for me to really enjoy!!

Heres what happened. I do not have the chance to fly on the sim too much, so when I do fly, I want to have fun. I had a few hours so I
planned a flight From Juneau to Point Barrow In a DC-8-61. I got the flight up and going. It is about a 3 hour flight so I got it up to cruise
and went down to dinner. The old plane only has an autopilot that does HDG hold and ALT hold. when I came back from dinner I noticed
that I was still 240 miles from landing AND there was only 10000 lbs of fuel remaining. This is only enough to maybe land at barrow with
about 300 lbs remaining!! I was rerally pissed!! I thought that I would NEVER get the chance to get one friggin flight accomplished
without some crap ass thing going wrong like a CTD or something. AND NOW there is this problem!!! What happened?!?! Did I
somehow misplan the fuel load? Is there something wrong with the flight model to where it isn't burning fuel properly? I was mad!!! I
figured that I want to get some kinda credit for the flight!!! So I thought I would declare an emergency and land at the nearest suitable
airfield. I declared an emergency and did a ILS at Deadhorse airport. I thought that the FS end of flight report was going to slam me with
bad fuel planning and declaring an emergency for a fault of my own etc. BUT!!!! The end of report sait that I aced it!!! Said that there was
a major fuel leak and that I saved the day with my actions!!!! I was elated!!! $10,000,000.00 for the flight and a big fat bunch of points!!!

I never thought that FSpax did the fuel leak.

Gotta hand it to you FSpassengers!!!!! I have been in a great mood because of this!!!

You Fs passengers folks are ace # 1!!!!!

Oh Yeah! GREAT WEEKEND to everyone here!! All of you FS passengers staff and flyers! You ALL deserve it!! Great to know ya!!



Post Edited ( 04-29-06 18:19 )

[morten17041989]

brilliant..reading that post made me in a better mood..! nicely done on the flight by the way. even though you didnt know about the
failure

[DanSteph]

Thanks for kind words,

I have put all my knowledge and passion into this soft,

one may not forget all the wonderful people that helped for
translation, beta testing and for moderation here, they all
do or have done a great work.

(Sorry my post end as in a boring awards ceremony )

Dan

[Angturil]

It's great to read such enthusiastic posts

On a side note I'm wondering how much points one would earn in FsPassenger off the gimli glider experience
(for those who don't know about this page of the aeronautic history, do a search in google for Gimli Glider)

[DBE]

Angturil wrote:
It's great to read such enthusiastic posts

On a side note I'm wondering how much points one would earn in FsPassenger off the gimli glider experience
(for those who don't know about this page of the aeronautic history, do a search in google for Gimli Glider)

Oooh: the Gimli Glider, my favorite!

Or how a total cock-up can be saved by the skill and dedication of a few...

And to answer your question, I'd say that - as long as you would handle the issue in the same way as mentioned above - I suspect you'd get pretty much
the same results.

[jboweruk]

Don't forget the other Canadian jet, an A330 that holds the gliding record for an airliner at 89 miles.

[morten17041989]

jboweruk wrote:
Don't forget the other Canadian jet, an A330 that holds the gliding record for an airliner at 89 miles.

I think I saw a reconstruction of that on TV. An incredible performance of the pilots to land safely!

[huskydude]

jboweruk wrote:
Don't forget the other Canadian jet, an A330 that holds the gliding record for an airliner at 89 miles.

I saw that program too, that was AWESOME!! I wonder what that FSP score would been...

Passengers terrified by their experience...
Passengers didn't like the high G's experience...
Passengers opinion low and thinks your company should be minuses....
Landed at wrong airport...
"Hope we didn't bend a strut..."
Needless to say millions $$ damage to aircraft
and millions $$ damage to runway...

But nice touch for the music....

FSP is a great program and really enjoy it.

[hmdomingos]

morten17041989 wrote:

jboweruk wrote:
Don't forget the other Canadian jet, an A330 that holds the gliding record for an airliner at 89 miles.

I think I saw a reconstruction of that on TV. An incredible performance of the pilots to land safely!

and not only... heard the ATC did a tremendous job that day. the traffic controller on duty was awarded by several entities

[Kpeters]

Yeah fuel leaks are tricky! Had one once going from Guatemala to Costa Rica, had to land at Nicaragua :P on a Bac 1-11-500.

[williamsmith]

DanSteph wrote:
Thanks for kind words,

I have put all my knowledge and passion into this soft,

one may not forget all the wonderful people that helped for
translation, beta testing and for moderation here, they all
do or have done a great work.

(Sorry my post end as in a boring awards ceremony )

Dan

I'm sure all your "staff" will appreciate it even better when you implement that profit sharing scheme.
Checks in the mail guys!!! Just hope you didn't forget to take Brad out of your address book.

ws

[Cactus757]

hahah its just funny to hear a pilot cheer that he just had a fuel leak hah

[williamsmith]

Cactus757 wrote:
hahah its just funny to hear a pilot cheer that he just had a fuel leak hah

Yea, that is funny